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A Badge on the Table Moment

October 17, 2018 paulfdye

With a cable outage plaguing our neighborhood the other night, I decided to throw in a DVD and watch The…

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Posted in: NASA Shuttle Flight Director Memories Filed under: Flight Director, Mission Control, NASA, Operational leadership

Last Shift

May 8, 2018 paulfdye 1 Comment

The last Space Shuttle shift for the Iron Team was the night before entry of STS-135. The crew would wake…

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Posted in: NASA Shuttle Flight Director Memories Filed under: Flight Director, Mission Control, NASA, Shuttle Flight control center, Space Shuttle, STS-135

The Good Old Days

April 27, 2018 paulfdye 1 Comment

I was rummaging through my computer’s hard drive the other day, looking for photos to illustrate a talk I’m working…

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Posted in: NASA Shuttle Flight Director Memories Filed under: Flight Director, John Shannon, Mission Control, Norm Knight, Shuttle Flight control center, STS-135

Digital Apollo – Thoughts on Automation

March 24, 2018 paulfdye 2 Comments

I just finished reading a fascinating book that I learned of during a telephone interview with a PhD candidate in…

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Posted in: NASA Shuttle Flight Director Memories Filed under: Apollo, David A. Mindell, Draper Labs, fly-by-wire, man/machine interface, Mission Control, MIT, NASA, Space Shuttle

Memories of the Master……

January 8, 2018 paulfdye 3 Comments

John Young was a genuine hero, but he was as down to earth as they come. John never paid much…

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Posted in: NASA Shuttle Flight Director Memories Filed under: Astronaut, John Young, STS-1, Tribute

Critical Burn

December 26, 2017 paulfdye 1 Comment

It’s hard to go through Christmas without seeing at least one reference to Apollo 8, the mission that first flew…

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Posted in: NASA Shuttle Flight Director Memories Filed under: Apollo 13, Apollo 8, CAPCOM, Trans-Earth Insertion

COMMERCIAL SPACE

December 21, 2017 paulfdye

One of the most common questions I get from people I meet who find out I am retired from NASA…

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Posted in: NASA Shuttle Flight Director Memories Filed under: Commercial space, Space flight, SpaceEx

Interviews with NPR News’ Bob Collins

December 8, 2017 paulfdye

As a proud native of Minnesota, Ironflight is a media favorite for space reporters in the northern Midwest. Minnesota Public…

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Muses on Being a Flight Director Upon My Retirement

paulfdye 1 Comment

Ironflight sat down with his Public Affairs Officer during his last week on console in Mission Control to talk about…

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Editor’s Log: You don’t have to go

November 28, 2017 paulfdye 1 Comment

On November 14, 1969, humankind’s second journey to land on the moon lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center on…

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Posted in: KITPLANES and General Aviation, NASA Shuttle Flight Director Memories Filed under: Apollo 12, Decision making, Flight Controller, Flight Director, Go-No Go, Mission Control, Operational leadership, Preparedness, Weather

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